Archive - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

The Electric Slide

The history, 99% decline, and future of the Electric Stack with Sam D'Amico

Aug 26, 2025

Weekly Dose of Optimism #180

IsoDDE, Gemini 3 DeepThink, Blue Water + Saronic, Origin of Life, Texas School Choice + 7 Extra Doses

Feb 13

Excel Never Dies

The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies

Mar 8, 2021

The Great Online Game

How to Win the Internet

May 10, 2021

Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce

The Quiet Chinese Quindecacorn Taking Over America’s Gen Z Shoppers

May 17, 2021

Own the Internet

A Bull Case for Ethereum

May 24, 2021

a16z: The Power Brokers

a16k word essay on a16z on the day of a15b fundraise

Jan 9

Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind

A Co-Written Essay with Evan Beard

Jan 16

Attention is All You Need

OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugins and the emergence of an Apex Aggregator

Mar 27, 2023

Anduril: Acquiring Prime

Analyzing Anduril's M&A Strategy and the Future of Defense

Oct 3, 2023

To 2023 and Beyond

Dec 19, 2022

Tech is Going to Get Much Bigger

What happens when energy, intelligence, and labor get cheap?

Nov 8, 2023

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